The Chest Containing Various Teachings (Kyokun zonagamochi)

Arts of Asia

1784

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Japanese, 1760-1849

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Title: The Chest Containing Various Teachings (Kyokun zonagamochi)
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1774-1794
Medium: Woodblock-printed book; 5 vols.
Inscriptions: Nishimiya Shinroku Kazusaya Rihei (publisher). Author: Ito Tanboku
Dimensions: 22.2 × 15.6 × 0.1 cm (8 3/4 × 6 3/16 × 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1397
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“Torii Kiyonaga, the Birth of Venus in Edo”, organized by Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba Japan, April 28 - June 10, 2007.
March 4- May 14, 2006, Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, Hokusal the Immortal.

Louis Émile Javal (1839–1907), Paris, by 1907 [according to his collecting practices]. Sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 13, 1928, to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Lake Geneva, WI; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.

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